Thursday, March 10, 2011

Aero's English Voice Debut

Tonight's Devroom update once again focuses on the voice recording session of series newcomer Aero -- this time, however, composer Reo Uratani discusses the process of sound mixing and editing dialogue. Headlining the post, brief samples of both Aero's English and Japanese voices, each fine-tuned to fit a number of different effects (echoes, radio-wave, etc.).

At the moment, I can't embed the samples in the post so you'll have to check 'em out at the Devroom here. Again, they're very brief, but long enough for us to draw comparisons between the two actresses' performances. Aero's English voice is... a little different than I expected. Don't get me wrong, it sounds great thus, but perhaps a little deeper than I imagined.

Capcom is still hush-hush on who exactly is providing the voice of English Aero, but I'm sure one keen-eared fan will probably narrow it down to a few individuals.

It's a bit too deep for my liking, and I've even always been a fan of giving the altos the good parts! The inflections sound alright, but the pitch just seems too low and better suited for a character who's designed to look a little older, like around the 16-18 range.

MM Model Q: Sorry, but you're going to have to be more specific & "constructive" in your criticism. What do I mean "constructive"? Look at Dashe's comment: Better yet, look at the comments in the Dev Blog.

@Krazy Monkey: OF COURSE! This is after all a blog post talking about the "Voice" of the new character, with various clips of "Audio" samples. But I understand you, since I guess you didn't "SEE" that.

Her voice is...sadly not what I expected, but can't really judge from such short samples. Honestly I feel we could have used a much better set of voice actors. Since... higher pitched ones would sound a lot more Aero-like. Especially considering these sound really aggressive.

@ Anon 3People are allowed to state their opinions on this, that's the point.

Duh! Isn't it obvious? She doesn't sound like a 12-year old Japanese girl, that's what's wrong. And until she does fans will complain about her sounding too "butch" (she sounds no more "butch" than Tron, to be honest).

Wow. Of all things to have someone on my back about, it's my opinion on Aero's voice. This just goes to show that if you disagree with the general public, then you're automatically on everyone's "hate list".

@Rock-X:

That's not what I was talking about, and you know it. If that was your way of trying to be funny, then you failed at it. Big time.

'scuse us for mentioning the in-accuracies that we, the fans, are trying to keep accurate. I'm not whining like some, but you do have to take into consideration that this is a part where our opinions are NEEDED. Not un-needed. The only whiners here are those whining about people stating their HONEST opinion which is something Capcom WANTS. The only time you should tell whiners to zip it is when they complain about a new game, not when they're involved in the DEVELOPMENT of the game.

The people complaining were obviously going to complain long before it was ever shown, just because they hate anything that's not the first thing they've heard.

If the English sample was released first, and then the Japanese, they'd cry "IT'S TOO HIGH PITCHED" to the Japanese, or something like that. It's the same case with a lot of things.A good example I can give is Dragon Ball Z. People bitch beyond belief over Son Gokuu's Japanese voice because it "doesn't suit him and sounds like a little retard girl" or something like that.

If they watched the show in Japanese prior to ever seeing the FUNimation dub, they'd say the opposite. Much like how these people will defend a sub/dub if it was available first.

TL;DR version: Shut up for once, and appreciate that the game you've been screaming for 10 years, is actually being worked on.Geez, you guys are acting like Classic-X-Zero fans now. -_-

It's a Dev Room. People can voice their opinion because they're part of it.

Back on topic.To me the line where she goes "You really are all fools." doesn't fit Aero especially when done with the Reverb. I'm not talking about the line itself but how the line sounded. It sounded like someone who is about 16-20 not 12-14 but I think the VA could reach 12-14.

As for the VA. Could it be Lisa Ortiz? Sorta sounds like her but deeper.

@Kraz Monkey:"Of all things to have someone on my back about, it's my opinion on Aero's voice." Actually, he was agreeing with you on your opinion with the voice, you simply read the lines wrong."This just goes to show that if you disagree with the general public, then you're automatically on everyone's "hate list"." That's in your head, as is my thought that I'm on an internet's "Most Wanted" list."That's not what I was talking about, and you know it" Proving my exact point of not "SEEING" the "IRONY" in your "POST" about "USING" your "EYES" to "HEAR" her "VOICE"."If that was your way of trying to be funny..." Trying? Ha, DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

Good god, people, can't we keep one PRC post from turning into a verbal brawl over opinions? Seriously, even if they chose a new voice actor for the eng. version, it's a 50/50 chance that the 2nd VA will sound worse or be at the same level than the current one does. Besides, the current one can always work on sounding more like what the character would probably sound like, but then again, she won't be able to please every fan that nitpicks over something like voice acting.

But on the actual voice itself: I think it works fine, honestly. The one voice we probably should be worried about would be Trigger/Volnutt, since he's had both male and female VAs.

Unfortunately considering the kind of people that come here a verbal brawl is pretty much inevitable. Some of the worst "megaman fans" I've ever seen if not the worst frequent here, if you can even call them fans by any stretch of the imagination. I sometimes scratch my head wondering why they even care to come here or any place megaman-related if they can only talk about how bad everything is and how supposedly stupid they think the fanbase is. I suppose making others angry is just that much fun.

The voice clips are fine, I'd like to hear more but we'll have to wait for an actual trailer in all probability before that happens.

Hey everyone, how about we all be quiet and listen to wait Saito Volnutt said alright? He's actually the only one thinking ahead about the VA that should be recieving this much criticism and not the current one. Ok thank you for stopping with the flaming.

@ Amir: It doesn't matter who was saying what for how long, what matters is that the fans stop nitpicking over one damn voice and worry about something else than that one little voice.

@ Politian: What amazes me is that fans are still nitpicking and fighting when something as great as this is even happening, green-lit or not. Not only that, this is actually happening at a horrible time when you're considering the shit Japan's even going through right now. Basically, now's not the time for worrying something as minor as voice-acting.

I like how so many of the fans hated on Aero for being the stereotypical animeish character and still complain that her voice isn't cute or high (KAWAII DESU) enough. Make up your mind, people.

Sure, her voice scared me at first (do not listen to the first clip with high volume), but as long as we don't have Sailor Megaman Jupiter return, I'm perfectly fine. Scratch that, as long as we have nothing similar to Rockman.exe in Onimusha Blade Warriors, I'll be jumping for joy. Most American versions of games with voice-acting are not made awesome because of it.